1918 Quote by Katherine Anne Porter Download Open image ““Shut your eyes,” said Miss Tanner. “Oh no,” said Miranda, “for then I see worse things…”” — Katherine Anne Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1918 1918-influenza Death Influenza Katherine-anne-porter Miranda Worse Miss Tanner Pale-horse-pale-rider Short-novels Shut Eyes Southern-writers Spanish-influenza Ur Eyes Worse Worse Things
“It was like a slap. I dont remember her being mean before that. It made Miranda smile. The smile that unlocked something in Beth… — Karen Foxlee Copy Share Image
“Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting… — Kelly Braffet Copy Share Image
“Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“She looks tan...-ish." "There's a fine line between 'tan', and looking like you just rolled around in a giant bag of Doritos. And Miranda… — Jena Leigh Copy Share Image
“I’ve been so careful my whole life that I don’t even want to imagine what I’ve missed.” Sara realized she was speaking so quickly… — Heather McVea Copy Share Image
“Tara flashed a 'look' at me. I didn’t like it very much. It made me feel---small.” — Kimberly Raiser Copy Share Image
“Sucks being the girl, doesn't it?" Said Quinn. "Shut up." But yes. It did.” — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
“I can't say." Miranda mimicked a very grown-up sound with her imperious tone. "I wasn't at the morgue. I was in school.” — Theasa Tuohy Copy Share Image
“A longer pause, and the carriage came to a halt. “I see very little difference,” he finally said into the quiet. “My life is… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“But this is a general objection of the sceptical sort to all miracles of whatever kind, and leadeth anon into the quagmire of arguments… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“At that time the authorities used to love to set up their concentration camps in former monasteries: they were enclosed by strong walls, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A circular letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all German authorities abroad shortly after the November pogroms of 1918 stated: "The emigration… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Bells Screamed all off key, wrangling together as they collided in midair, horns and whistles mingled shrilly with cries of human distress; sulphur-colored light… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image